What does a hero look like in our lives? I believe we had a glimpse of true heroism with the passing of Chadwick Boseman.

In the Year 2025, we have learned from our mistakes from The Great Pause. We have created a better society. How did we get there?

A meditation on how individuals are able to, or come to be able to, do horrible things. Relying on his own experience and the work of Stanford researcher and professor Philip Zimbardo, Joe Jackowski dives into the nature of evil.

In the present study, we sought to examine how military personnel make meaning out of their military vs. civilian life experiences and the degree to which meaning violation impacts their efforts. Veterans anonymously wrote reflective essays, one about a military-related negative life experience and one relating to a civilian-related negative life experience, and completed the Global Meaning Violation Scale (Park, 2016) for each experience. We also coded for generic you (i.e. ‘you’ used generally, instead of regarding a specific individual) as this indicates meaning-making. Although our results revealed no significant difference in generic you usage depending on the condition, and no significant correlations were found between meaning violation and generic you, active-duty military personnel were much less likely to use generic-you than inactive, a category comprised of reservists/national guard, those who served in both active duty and the reserves/national guard, and other, suggesting an impact on meaning making from military status.

Will you be part of the secret crowd?

Amidst a global pandemic, one thing remains clear: healthcare workers are at the forefront of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). When schools, businesses, shopping centers, bars, and restaurants shut their doors, the hospital must keep theirs open. What is it like, then, for the thousands of healthcare workers who are working alongside this virus?

I love art. Music, film, drawing and photography. All of these mediums have a place under the general umbrella of art, but there are certainly forms of these mediums that we wouldn’t consider art…

Information on COVID-19 that cuts through the noise of the evolving situation. There are a few ways to think about asymmetrical risk during this outbreak.

Erich reflected on 2019! as we have just passed our second anniversary of Feeding Curiosity, it was time to look back on the year!

New Year is an exciting time of the year. It's one of the few times of the year that people openly reflect on the course of their life over the previous year, not to mention the countless New Years' resolutions as well.

In the process of outlining my thoughts on this Review of 2019 for Feeding Curiosity and by extension myself - one year and a lot can happen!

This post is a tribute to a legend, a legacy, and to the lives of those lost in the tragic helicopter crash. I wrote this to honor the memory of those we lost too soon. I hope this post will inspire others to live life with more compassion, empathy, and zest for what matters most to them.

Visualize your morning starting on the right foot.

Jordan unpacks what makes this version of the Joker equal parts compelling and repulsive that leaves audiences unsettled.

A poem on rumination. Letting thoughts spiral out of control can dig yourself into a hole. There is always a way up; you have to lift your head to see it.

A small poem written to explore the spiraling increase in complexity inherent to being.

This post provides an overview of the wearable technology Whoop and Oura. Erich wears these devices to track sleep and activity. This blog goes into detail on what each device measures. You will also gain an understanding of why it is important to monitor this for daily recovery.

We asked a few guests on the show how they deal self-doubt. We hope these tips help you when the demons creep in and allow you to reach out to those around you since we all have these demons.

Try out a creative writing exercise used in the University of Michigan’s Psych 443 (Creativity) course. It’s a great warm up for experience writers, or a novel experience for the creative-types in our community.

Are you one who wears the mask?

This post builds on "What is Success" by Jordan Criss. In this post, we explore the idea that everyone person has a fire within them. Life is not a zero-sum game, and when we feed each other's fires, it fuels us all.